Theory of Knowledge: Epistemology (Link)

The course will critically examine the fundamental approaches to the philosophical theory of knowledge

Readings

• Descartes, Rene, Meditations (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993) ISBN-10: 0872201929; ISBN-13: 978-0872201927
• Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993) ISBN-10: 0872202291; ISBN-13: 978-0872202290
• Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Paul Guyer & Allen Wood (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999) ISBN 0-521-65729
• Plato, Meno (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976) ISBN-10: 0915144247 ; ISBN-13: 978-0915144242
• Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, trans. R. G. Bury (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933) ISBN 978-0-674-99301-3

2015-01-06: Introduction

If you feel that you cannot understand the readings, then you are cowardly and lazy, he says.

What is epistemology? It's a knowing about knowing, and this knowing, if we know knowing, lets us know other knowing, and know that we can know that knowing, and… I feel like there were some segments where I could have put the audio on a loop and not noticed. I think he said the word "knowing" about five hundred times in fifty minutes.

2015-01-08: Plato, Meno 70a-86d

2015-01-13: Plato, Meno 86e-100b; Plato, Republic 504e-513e

2015-01-15: Plato, Republic 514a-520e

2015-01-20: Aristotle, Metaphysics Book I Ch. 1-2, Book IV Ch. 3

2015-01-22: Aristotle, Metaphysics Book IV Ch. 4-5, Posterior Analytics Book I Ch. 1-6

2015-01-27: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 3-59

2015-01-29: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 59-93, 115-121, 151-165

2015-02-03: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism 203-213, 243-257, 283-301

2015-02-05: Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 325-345; Descartes, Meditations I-II

2015-02-10: Descartes, Meditations III

2015-02-12: Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections I-V

2015-02-17: Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections VI-VII

2015-02-19: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason B1-B6, A3/B6-A16/B30, 136-152

2015-02-24: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A19/B34-A41/B58, 172-184; A42/B59-A57/B82, 185-197

2015-02-26: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A58/B82-A76/B101, 197-210

2015-03-03: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A77/B102-A92/B124, 210-223

2015-03-05: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A92-A110, 224-234

2015-03-17: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A110-A130, 234-244

2015-03-24: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A131/B170-A158/B197, 267-283

2015-03-26: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A159/B198-A176/B218, 283-295

2015-03-31: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A176/B218-A218/B265, 295-321

2015-04-02: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason A218/B266-A235/B287, B288-B294, 321-337

2015-04-07: Hegel, “Introduction” from Phenomenology of Spirit 46-57

2015-04-09: Hegel, “Sense-Certainty” from Phenomenology of Spirit 58-66

2015-04-14: Hegel, “General Notion of Logic” from Science of Logic 43-50

2015-04-16: Hegel, “General Notion of Logic” from Science of Logic 50-59

2015-04-21: Hegel, “With What Must Science Begin?” from Science of Logic 67-78

2015-04-23: Hegel, “Being” from Science of Logic 82-93

2015-04-28: MAKE UP CLASS: Hegel, “Becoming” from Science of Logic 93-108